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Biscuit's New Trick (My First I Can Read)

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In this book, The Girl With The Purple Sneakers wants to teach Biscuit how to fetch a ball. But learning is not always easy when the world is filled with fascinating things like bones and cats. But once Biscuit is ready to learn even a big mud puddle won't stand in his way.

A good book that shows it is easy to be distracted and that obstacles can be overcome. Told in the wonderful "Biscuit" style and with adorable illustrations.

This is a terrific new Biscuit book. My 7 year old daughter can read it with no problem. It is almost too easy for her. It is a wonderful book for the very beginning readers. My daughter and I enjoy the humor of Biscuit not wanting to listen and doing eveything except what he is told. Sounds just like a puppy! All kids who like dogs will enjoy this book!

This Biscuit series is a wonderful little group of books which are indeed easy readers and are ideal to start a child out. The wording is simple, yet at the same time just challenging enough to keep the child interested in continuing and learning.

In this little book Biscuit is learning a new trick; fetching a ball and the author has nailed the process of accomplishing this with a little puppy perfectly. I am in full agreement with another reviewer here that noted that the little girl who is training the little puppy is doing everything correctly. She is repetitive in her task, praises Biscuit at the appropriate times and gently corrects him when he makes an error or is distracted. This is how a puppy should be taught. (You could say the same thing about kids...come to think of it.) Not only are we receiving a good reading lesion, but also a good lesson on how to train and interact with the family pet.

The art work here by Pat Schories is very well executed as is her trademark; the pictures are cute, colorful, natural looking and full of action. They go perfectly with the text.

A sampling of the text:

"Fetch the ball, Biscuit.
Woof, woof!

Silly puppy!
Don't roll over now.
Get the ball, Biscuit."

This is a wonderful little book; one of several in the series. This book and the rest should be on your child's book shelf.

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks

My son is just learning how to read and really loves the Biscuit books. Highly recommend!

As with all Biscuit Books, this one is also wonderful. The reason I am writing this review is to complement the author for teaching the correct way to train a puppy a trick! The little girl praised Biscuit whenever he completed any part of the trick without fail. She was patient and despite her initial dismay when Biscuit ran into the mud to fetch the ball, she praised him joyfully when he brought the ball back to her, mud and all. The kindergarteners that I tutor love these books, I wish they were around when I was a kid.

My 5-year-old daughter loves the Biscuit series of books and though we got the series last year, she still takes them off the shelf and reads them by herself and even to me, without being asked! Now, that's a winning series to me as through these two years since I began to teach her reading skills, we've gone through many different readers by various publishers (many of which I've reviewed in terms of how helpful/effective they've been) and only certain series have appealed to her. Being a visual learner, colorful and interesting illustrations are important, but at the same time they should not detract from the reading itself.

The Biscuit series of books has Biscuit the Dog go on simple yet fun adventures. Here Biscuit learns a new trick and has fun while he's learning. This is a wonderful and appealing series for early readers.